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<div><h1 class="article-title">How can I remind students about tasks they must complete?</h1></div>
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    <p>Students often ask to be notified of events in their course sites, such as upcoming assignment or assessment due dates and whether items have been graded.</p>
<p>Many tools include options to notify site participants of various activities and help them keep track of their completed or graded work. This article discusses many popular tools that include these options.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Automatically displaying scheduled messages and important dates</h2>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Automate messages in Announcements.</h3>
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<li>When you <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoiaddanannouncement">create or edit an announcement</a>, specify custom dates when it will be available. Schedule an announcement to be posted at a specific date and time using <strong>Specify Dates</strong> &gt; <strong>Beginning </strong>in the <strong>Availability </strong>area.</li>
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<a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoiaddanannouncement">Enable email notifications</a> to send the announcement to site participants via email. If the announcement also has a <strong>Beginning</strong> date set, the email notification will be sent at the specified date and time. In the <strong>Email Notification</strong> area, select <strong>High - All participants</strong> or <strong>Low - Not received by those who have opted out</strong>.</li>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Add important dates to the Calendar.</h3>
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    <p><a href="content.hlp?docId=whatisthecalendartool">Add the Calendar tool</a> to your site to display important events from other tools, such as assignment and assessment due dates. Publish your calendar to let students import events from it into other calendars they may use, such as Google Calendar.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Helping students to keep track of upcoming and completed work</h2>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Automatically add assignment due dates to the Calendar and Announcements.</h3>
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    <p>Assignments works together with the Calendar and Announcements tools if they are activated in your site. </p>
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<li>When you create or edit an assignment, automatically add the assignment due date to the Calendar tool. In the <strong>Availability</strong> area, check <strong>Add due date to calendar</strong>.</li>
<li>Add an announcement about the open date to Announcements. In the <strong>Availability</strong> area, check <strong>Add an announcement about the open date to Announcements</strong>.</li>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Track tasks in Lessons.</h3>
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    <p>Use Lessons to structure the course activities and to make it easier for site participants to access the content they need and to engage with learning materials.</p>
<p>In Lessons, <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoiaddachecklistonalessonspage">add a checklist </a>for each week, unit, or topic to help site participants keep track of the activities they've completed and to manage their time.</p>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Automatically add test dates to the Calendar and Announcements.</h3>
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<li>When you <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoipublishanassessmentietestorquiz">publish an assessment with Tests &amp; Quizzes</a>, send an automatic email notification to site participants to let them know when the assessment will be available. Select <strong>send notification below to students</strong> .</li>
<li>Check <strong>Display due date on Calendar</strong>. By default, if the Calendar tool is included in your site, the assessment's due date will be displayed on the calendar.</li>
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    <p><em><strong>Note:</strong> The email notification is sent immediately when publishing the assessment, but students will not be able to access the assessment via the link in the email until the assessment reaches it's availability time.</em></p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Notifying students when new materials are added to your site</h2>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Send notifications when you add content to Drop Box.</h3>
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    <p>In <a href="content.hlp?docId=whatisthedropboxtool">Drop Box</a>, use the <strong>Options</strong> tab to enable email notifications when files are uploaded. Allowing email notifications will give you the option to send notifications to students when you upload files to their folders. It will also give students the option to notify you when they upload files. You can choose to always send email notifications to ensure that email notifications are sent for each upload.</p>
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    <p>When you <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoiuploadfilestoresources">upload files in Resources</a>, send an automatic email notification to site participants to let them know that new content is available. In the Email notification for this update menu, select <strong>High - All participants</strong> or <strong>Low - Not received by those who have opted out</strong> before completing the upload.</p>
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